A44681:52
A funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman Mrs. Margaret Baxter, who…
A funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman Mrs. Margaret Baxter, who died the 28th of June, 1681 by John Howe.
London: printed for Brabazon Alymer, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, How mysterious and ineffable is the Union of the Lord, and the Soul; and how more highly venerable, as this is a Sacred Mystery! And who would not admire at their proud disdainful folly, that while they cannot explain the Union between the Soul and Body, are ready to jeer at their just, humble, and modest Ignorance, that call this other a Mystical Union? Or, because they know not what to make of it, would make nothing, and will not allow there should be any such thing, or would have it be next to nothing. Have those words no sense belonging to them, or not a great sense, 1 Cor. 6.17. But he that is joined unto the Lord, is one Spirit? And, upon this supernatural Union also (be it what it will) methinks the binding, and drawing Power of Love should not be less!
Again, How mysterious and ineffable is the Vnion of the Lord, and the Soul; and how more highly venerable, as this is a Sacred Mystery! And who would not admire at their proud disdainful folly, that while they cannot explain the Vnion between the Soul and Body, are ready to jeer at their just, humble, and modest Ignorance, that call this other a Mystical Vnion? Or, because they know not what to make of it, would make nothing, and will not allow there should be any such thing, or would have it be next to nothing. Have those words no sense belonging to them, or not a great sense, 1 Cor. 6.17. But he that is joined unto the Lord, is one Spirit? And, upon this supernatural Union also (be it what it will) methinks the binding, and drawing Power of Love should not be less!
2ly, We must conceive in our Minds, as distinctly as we can, the peculiar Adjuncts of each of these more principal Terms, i. e. On the part of the Body (first) we are to consider a sensible, a grossly corporeal World, to which this Body doth connaturalize us; and whereto we are attempered by our being in the Body, and living this bodily Life. This Body, while we live in it, is the terminus uniens, the medium, the unitive Bond between us and it. In this World we find our selves encompassed with Objects